A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will support Associate Professor of Biology Michael Hood and colleagues from two other institutions as they study the evolutionary ecology of disease transmission.

It’s a subculture often dismissed with a punch line: Nigerians who email unsuspecting victims and convince them to send money in return for nonexistent goods or deals. This semester, 25 Amherst students looked beyond the punch line to the young perpetrators of the infamous scam.